What did the guest pick for timecounter? (sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware)

Your hardware is nearly a decade old. I wouldn't be surprised if vmm
picked some ancient timecounter hardware. For the example below, my guest
chose 'tsc' (I have a 2013-era Ivy Bridge CPU). All my hosts/VMs are
-current. And we know if your hardware is shit, we do the best we can but
no promises as to how precise time is going to be. With tsc timecounter,
my VMs that have been up for weeks have drifted maybe a second or two from
the host.

In any case, in my amd64 VM, the first time I do your command I see this:

In other words, I don't see anything odd here. The vm appears to actually
be running faster than the host. I'm not concerned about the 2-3 second
difference on the first resolve. I bet if I ran it a hundred times I'd see
things pretty much the same.

Re: tor inside vmm, horribly slow?!

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 12:38:00AM -0800, Mike Larkin wrote:

> > > > it's horrible slow, just doing 'tor-resolve $dnsname' takes
> > > > sometimes ages.
> > > > [...]
> [...]
>
> What did the guest pick for timecounter? (sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware)
>
> Your hardware is nearly a decade old. I wouldn't be surprised if vmm
> picked some ancient timecounter hardware. For the example below, my guest
> chose 'tsc' (I have a 2013-era Ivy Bridge CPU). All my hosts/VMs are
> -current. And we know if your hardware is shit, we do the best we can but
> no promises as to how precise time is going to be. With tsc timecounter,
> my VMs that have been up for weeks have drifted maybe a second or two from
> the host.
>
> [...]
>
> In other words, I don't see anything odd here. The vm appears to actually
> be running faster than the host. I'm not concerned about the 2-3 second
> difference on the first resolve. I bet if I ran it a hundred times I'd see
> things pretty much the same.

Mike, thank you for your time. The VM picked 'tsc' as timecounter.

Putting CC Pascal, Tor port maintainer, as I am suspicious that this slowness
is related to what tor itself is doing in that time.